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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
RPG 04 March 2021
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is a narrative RPG that refers in its gameplay model to classic paragraph games. The game is set in a dark fantasy world, and the storyline focuses on an attempt to overcome destiny.
Cryptmaster
RPG 09 May 2024
A unique hybrid of RPG and adventure game, made in the convention of FPP dungeon crawler. In Cryptmaster we take control of four heroes traversing the dungeon, and interacting with the world and fighting are based on typing in keywords.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Purgatory
Adventure 23 July 2024
A text adventure game with RPG elements. Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Purgatory allows us to play as Samira - a werewolf refugee finding herself in a crisis situation on the Polish-Belarusian border. She's trying to solve a murder mystery and learn about a local werewolf pack.
Mage: The Ascension - Refuge
Adventure 16 February 2017
An adventure storytelling game for mobile devices, created by White Wolf Entertainment and Swedish novelist Karin Tidbeck. Mage the Ascension: Refuge is based on a tabletop role-playing game. The production takes place in today's Sweden, and you play as a woman, who recently learned that she's a mage and gradually discovers her powers, which allow her to shape reality. Unfortunately, enemy factions want to use her powers to conquer the magical society.
The Innsmouth Case
Adventure 23 June 2020
Adventure game realized in the form of a virtual gamebook, based on the work of H.P. Lovecraft. In The Innsmouth Case we play the role of a detective who comes to the town to solve the mysterious disappearance of little Tabitha Marsh.
Bitburner
Simulation 11 December 2021
An unusual idle game, Bitburner lets you play as a hacker and discover the secrets of the cyberpunk world using a real programming language. The game is available completely for free.
Roadwarden
RPG 12 September 2022
A text-based RPG with adventure and survival elements. In Roadwarden we take on the role of one of the rangers, and our task is to investigate a mysterious peninsula.
Eldrum: Red Tide
RPG 26 September 2022
The second part of a series of text-based RPGs, started by Eldrum: Untold. In Eldrum: Red Tide we find ourselves in a war-torn fantasy world, which we traverse as a former soldier searching for his missing sibling.
Simulacra 3
Adventure 25 October 2022
Third part of the series of adventure games, the action of which takes place on the screen of a smartphone. In Simulacra 3 we find ourselves in the town of Stonecreek, and our task is to unravel the mystery of mysterious disappearances.
Vampire: The Masquerade - We Eat Blood
Adventure 16 February 2017
A narrative adventure game from White Wolf Entertainment’s team, based on the popular tabletop game Vampire The Masquerade. It takes place in alternative reality, known as World of Darkness, where many supernatural beings live besides humans. We play as a young vampire, who only recently started to feel the great hunger and noticed changes in his body. Players will help him cope with this new reality and discover the truth about the supernatural world that surrounds him.
Antioch: Scarlet Bay
Adventure 25 November 2022
A text adventure game focusing on co-op experience and investigation-related aspects. It was created by Mi-Clos - a French developer. The year is 1983 and the plot is set in the titular Antioch - a fictional town surrounded by sea and mountains. The game follows the adventures of two detectives working on an exceptionally complicated case.
Letters: A Written Adventure
Adventure 09 February 2022
Adventure platform game in which we accompany a teenage Sarah in her adolescence. In Letters: A Written Adventure the gameplay is about filling in gaps in texts with selected words, which we literally push into the right places.
Wanderlust Travel Stories
Adventure 26 September 2019
A narrative adventure game in the convention of an interactive travel journal. In Wanderlust: Travel Stories, developers from the Polish studio Different Tales tell stories of travelers whose lives are shaped by our decisions.
Epistory: Typing Chronicles
Adventure 30 March 2016
An action-adventure game with metroidvania features. The player assumes the role of a muse, one of the goddesses of fine arts from the Greek mythology – the main protagonist is tasked with finding inspiration for the female writer who asked her for help in writing a new book. In order to complete this objective, the protagonist will travel through a fantasy, fairy-tale world, face various dangers and solve numerous environmental riddles.
Rubicon: A Conspiracy of Silence
Adventure 20 October 2021
Narrative adventure game in which we play as a heroine who tracks secrets of her company. In Rubicon: A Conspiracy of Silence the gameplay is based on conversations and making choices influencing the further course of the story and how much information we manage to gain.
A Case of Distrust
Adventure 08 February 2018
A Case of Distrust is a text noir adventure game set in San Francisco in the 1920s. In the production of the independent studio The Wandering Ben, we play the role of a young woman, Phyllis, who decided to become a private detective.
The Wizard's Castle
RPG 31 December 1981
One of the first games released for PCs with MS DOS. The title is a simple text RPG in which, as an adventurer, we enter the castle of a sorcerer in search of treasures and a powerful artifact.
Sorcery! 2
Adventure 07 November 2013
A sequel to a unique adventure RPG by inkle studio, and an adaptation of a popular gamebook by Steve Jackson and John Blanche. The story of Sorcery! 2 continues the tale of its predecessor and takes us to Khare, town of outlaws, where The Festival of Thieves is celebrated. Players have to discover the mysteries of the town, overthrow the council ruling it, and stop an incoming invasion.
Sorcery! 3
RPG 22 April 2015
Third entry in the series of fantasy gamebook RPGs, started in 2013 by inkle Ltd.. The story of Sorcery! 3 connects to two previous titles, but it is not necessary to know them in order to play the game. That’s because we are taken to a completely new region, Kakhabad, where a powerful artifact known as The Crown of Kings is hidden in one of cities.
Zarya-1
Adventure 24 April 2017
A text adventure maintained in the convention of horror science fiction. Players direct the actions of four astronauts sent to the Moon to investigate the source of the disturbing signal that reached Earth in 2021. During the game we get acquainted with the text messages sent by our charges (from time to time enriched with graphics stylized on photographs) and we make decisions that lead us to one of the several endings.
The Executioner
RPG 25 September 2019
An R-rated hybrid game combining elements of RPG and visual novels. The players assume the role of the executioner who handles torturing and killing people on a daily basis, and at the same time is trying to take care of his mental health.
STAY
Adventure 16 May 2018
An adventure/text game hybrid, in which you help the amnesiac Quinn. The protagonist has been most likely kidnapped and your task is to help him escape.
Simulacra
Adventure 26 October 2017
Original adventure game, in which our task is to find the owner of the found phone. We need to collect information by chatting with her friends, checking the content of files stored on the device, and sometimes fixing corrupted data.
Nanotale: Typing Chronicles
Adventure 31 March 2021
A spiritual successor to Epistory: Typing Chronicles. In Nanotale: Typing Chronicles, the players find themselves in a dying fantasy world. The main character of the game, the archivist Rosalina, travels the distant corners of the land, discovering its secrets. The characteristic feature of this production are the controls, which are based on manually typed verbal commands.